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huge

adj
/hjuːd͡ʒ/UK/hjʉwd͡ʒ//hjud͡ʒ/US

Etymology

From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), of unknown origin. One theory derives it from an underlying Old French a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), the latter from Frankish *haug or cognate Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, whence also English high.

  1. derived from *kewk-✻
  2. derived from *kowkós✻ — “hill, mound”
  3. derived from *haugaz✻ — “hill, mound”
  4. derived from haugr — “hill”
  5. derived from *haug✻
  6. derived from ahuge — “high, lofty, great, large, huge”
  7. inherited from huge

Definitions

  1. Very large.

    • The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].

  2. Very strong, powerful, or dedicated.

    • Both of my parents are huge supporters of animal rights.

  3. Very interesting, significant, or popular.

    • The band's next album is going to be huge.
    • In our league our coach is huge!

The neighborhood

  • antonymtinyantonym(s) of “very large”
  • antonymsmallantonym(s) of “very large”
  • antonymminusculeantonym(s) of “very large”
  • antonymmidgetantonym(s) of “very large”
  • antonymdwarfantonym(s) of “very large”

Derived

hugantic, hugely, hugemongous, hugen, hugeness, hugeous, huge page, hugesome, huge tegu, hugy, humongous, hunormous, overhuge, superhuge

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at huge. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01huge02interesting03holding04stocks05humiliation06humiliating07degrade08mountains09mountain

A definitional loop anchored at huge. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at huge

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA